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La Thi Kim Ngan

October 3, 2016|post

This portrait is part of the USAID Vietnam Clean Energy Program’s series on women champions in the Vietnamese construction sector, featuring women who have made strides in this male-dominated field, coming from diverse backgrounds and with different interests, but bound together by the common themes of a strong work ethic, love of country, a strong […]

Winrock & Concordia Form Partnership to Address Labor Trafficking

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It’s a long way from the glittering canyons of Manhattan to the cramped confines of a fishing vessel in Southeast Asia. But a new partnership between Winrock International and the nonprofit organization Concordia is about to make that distance shorter. The partnership, the Concordia Campaign Against Human Trafficking, was announced Tuesday, September 20, at the […]

A Culture of Innovation at Winrock International

September 16, 2016|post

Winrock International was born on an Arkansas mountaintop — and now has 120 projects in 46 countries. Innovation is part of its DNA. After Winthrop Rockefeller’s death in 1973, trustees of his estate created the Winrock International Research and Training Center to further his wish that the farm be “venturesome and innovative” and provide tools to help people help themselves. And it’s done just that […]

To #EndHunger, Farmer-to-Farmer Volunteers Support Feed the Future Initiatives in Bangladesh Through Technical Expertise

September 13, 2016|volunteer

This week Feed the Future is celebrating its partners who are working to #EndHunger across the globe. Since 2009, the United States has led the way in strengthening global efforts to reduce poverty, hunger, and undernutrition through the Feed the Future initiative. Winrock International’s USAID-funded Farmer-to-Farmer Program is currently supporting this mission in three of […]

Winrock’s A/D/C Fellow in Burma

July 17, 2016|post

Since 2004, staff of Winrock’s John D. Rockefeller 3rd Scholars Program have been working to track down former fellows of the Agricultural Development Council, Winrock’s predecessor organization, which gave graduate degree scholarships to 588 students in 16 Asian countries between 1954 and 1985. It was easy to find former A/D/C fellows in Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand […]

My Experience with the JDR 3RD Scholars Program

July 17, 2016|post

The winning research team, commissioned through an open grant competition, was led by Dr. (Ms.) Ai Thanda Kyaw, Assistant Veterinary Officer at the Yangon City Development Committee. She and her team carried out the first participatory household survey conducted by the Ministry of Livestock in Myanmar. The survey yielded a clear picture of the impacts […]

The House That Bats Built

July 17, 2016|post

At first, just a few dark shapes streak through the sky, but as the sun sets over Cambodia’s Svay Rieng province, the pace quickly picks up. Soon, thousands of bats are swarming from their roosts as they begin their nightly hunt for insects. “I have 50,000 to 60,000 bats living here,” says The Koeung, pointing […]

A Gold Miner in the Forest

June 30, 2016|post

By Chris Warren Among the last things you can expect to see along the road headed south from the Guyanese city of Linden is a living, breathing human being. In large part, that is because the deeply rutted dirt road to Brazil cuts through thick forest where human settlements of any sort are exceedingly rare. […]

Once A Refugee, Now An Advocate

June 20, 2016|post

How a Former Refugee is Working to Give Others a Voice When Mojeeb Stanikzai looks at the displaced children of South Sudan, he sees himself.  He was just six years old when his father was killed in a bomb blast during the Soviet-Afghan war. Out of money and options, his family fled their native Afghanistan […]

CTIP Partner Coordinates Release and Repatriation of Enslaved Cambodian Bride

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Case Study In November 2013, 27-year-old Srey Leap left Phnom Penh with four other Cambodian women for China.
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